WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture undertaken in Australia. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV), and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (NPG), the artworks span disciplines and chronologies, challenging traditional perceptions about portraiture.
Encompassing themes of identity, isolation, politics, celebrity and the social sphere, WHO ARE YOU features more than 200 works by celebrated Australian artists including Patricia Piccinini, Atong Atem, Nora Heysen, Howard Arkley, Vincent Namatjira and Tracey Moffatt, and sitters including Cate Blanchett, Helena Rubinstein, David Gulpilil and Marcia Langton.
Alongside these contributions sit new essays by some of Australia's foremost writers, artists and thinkers, including Phillip Adams, Sarah Krasnostein, William Yang, Bob Brown, Wesley Enoch AM and Carly Findlay OAM, as well as new essays by NGV and NPG curators.
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture undertaken in Australia. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV), and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (NPG), the artworks span disciplines and chronologies, challenging traditional perceptions about portraiture.
Encompassing themes of identity, isolation, politics, celebrity and the social sphere, WHO ARE YOU features more than 200 works by celebrated Australian artists including Patricia Piccinini, Atong Atem, Nora Heysen, Howard Arkley, Vincent Namatjira and Tracey Moffatt, and sitters including Cate Blanchett, Helena Rubinstein, David Gulpilil and Marcia Langton.
Alongside these contributions sit new essays by some of Australia's foremost writers, artists and thinkers, including Phillip Adams, Sarah Krasnostein, William Yang, Bob Brown, Wesley Enoch AM and Carly Findlay OAM, as well as new essays by NGV and NPG curators.
SOPHIE GERHARD is Assistant Curator of Australian Art to 1980 at
the National Gallery of Victoria. Prior to joining the NGV in 2019,
she completed a Master of Art Curatorship at the University of
Melbourne, and has also studied art history in the United Kingdom
and Spain. Gerhard regularly contributes to the field of art
history, most recently in the NGV's publication She-Oak and
Sunlight: Australian Impressionism; she worked as Assistant Curator
on the exhibition of the same name. Gerhard is a PhD candidate at
the University of Melbourne.
JOANNA GILMOUR is Curator, Collection & Research at the National
Portrait Gallery. She joined the NPG in 2008, having attained a
Master of Letters from the University of Sydney and following
several years with Sydney Living Museums and the National Trust S.
H. Ervin Gallery. Since 2011, she has curated the NPG's permanent
collection displays. Her many exhibitions and publications for the
NPG include Husbands & Wives (2010), Indecent Exposure (2011),
Elegance in Exile (2012), Sideshow Alley (2015), Facing New Worlds
(2018), Carte-o-mania! (2018) and Australian Love Stories
(2021).
PENELOPE GRIST is Curator Exhibitions at the National Portrait
Gallery. She holds a Master of Liberal Arts from the Australian
National University and honours degrees in Law and Art History from
the University of Sydney. Grist has curated and co-curated many
exhibitions, including Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
(2017) and Before Hand: The Private Life of a Portrait (2020).
DAVID HURLSTON is the NGV's Senior Curator of Australian Painting,
Sculpture and Decorative Arts to 1980. He holds a Bachelor of Arts
in Fine Art from RMIT and completed postgraduate studies in art
curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Hurlston has curated
many exhibitions for the NGV, including Inge King: Constellation
(2014), Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian Car
(2015), John Olsen: The You Beaut Country (2017), Roger Kemp:
Visionary Modernist (2019) and Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw
(2021).
HANNAH PRESLEY is a former curator of Indigenous Art at the NGV.
Her father's family are Marri Ngarr from the Moyle River region in
the Northern Territory. Presley works closely with artists to
respectfully represent the cultural connections that inform their
work. Presley was the inaugural Yalingwa curator at the Australian
Centre for Contemporary Art, where she curated A Lightness of
Spirit is the Measure of Happiness (2018). She was First Nations
Assistant Curator for Tracey Moffatt at the 57th Venice Biennale in
2017.
BECKETT ROZENTALS is Curator of Australian Art to 1980 at the
National Gallery of Victoria. Rozentals completed her Master of Art
Curatorship at the University of Melbourne in 2009 and commenced
working at the NGV the same year. Rozentals has worked as curator
on numerous exhibitions for the NGV, including Robert Jacks: Order
and Variation (2014), Hard Edge: Abstract Sculpture (2016), The
Field Revisited (2018) and Found and Gathered: Rosalie Gascoigne |
Lorraine Connelly-Northey (2021).
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